Krystal Ball Quotes

I don’t chose my friends and associates on the basis of political party. The Senate has become altogether too nasty.

Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly.

It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

Is there decency left in American politics?

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

President Bush said that he wanted to change the tone in Washington. He has; it has gotten worse.

We’ve got to debunk the myth that Democrats and Republicans are different species that cannot crossbreed.

There are some in Congress who would rather see their opponents lose than see their country win. That has got to stop…. They must find a way to put country ahead of party.

My Republican compatriots do not feel that people ought to work with Democrats across the aisle—Compromise is a bad word.

How to Turn Democrats & Republicans Into Americans

This is a time in which the sort of criticism of the President we are hearing troubles me. It shouldn’t be that speaking with one American voice, in a time of crisis, these days seems like a quaint idea.

Donald Trump:President of the Divided States of America

What we don't need to work toward is polarizing America any greater than it is. Look, I'm up here in Washington, D.C., in the Congress of the United States, and we have, all day, a lot of verbal vomit that is doing enormous damage.

Senators, representatives too often, we hear from our base, don't talk to the other side, don't with work with them.

After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.